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...Hinder the Summoning of Parliament Is to Intervent in the Viet Nam's Own Affairs." In Hue, the ancient Buddhist center 50 miles north west of Danang, 400 students took over the radio station for two days, broadcasting speeches and communiques denouncing the government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and punctuating the polemics with, of all things, John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Though South Viet Nam's most powerful Buddhist, Thich Tri Quang, accused Premier Ky of "indulging in a cult of personality," most of the Buddhist plaints and placards were aimed at Chief of State Thieu. Thieu is a Catholic, and it is political paramountcy over the Catholics that the bonzes want, rather than an outright overthrow of the government just...
...Ky took charge of the Saigon protests himself, meeting with Buddhist leaders and assuring them that he supported their program for elections and social reform-but also warning that street demonstrations would be ruthlessly crushed. Ky is a man of his word: last week, in fulfillment of his pledge to shoot war profiteers, Chinese Merchant Ta Vinh was executed at dawn by a firing squad. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also met with Thich Tri Quang to caution moderation. To quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure...
...Premier Ky will survive, Thai said, because he is "honest"--which from the way Thai stressed the word suggested that Ky is an exception. Yet And Thai hedges all his bets by expressing great admiration for the Catholic power behind Ky like Chief of State Thieu as well as Thieu's Buddhist arch-rival Tri Quang...
...takes quite a pitchman and a lot of positive thinking to describe the recent Buddhist riots not as a threat of overthrow, but as a "test of Premier Ky's statesmanship;" or to view Ky's autocratic ousting of General Thi, as "the emergence of democratic leadership." Thi had to go, the Ambassador, asserted, "because he didn't represent the majority." The majority of the Vietnamese people? he was asked. "No, the majority of the military leaders...